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Would there be any point in 2.5gbps beyond installing system updates a few seconds faster?

AFAIK you’d be hard pressed to hit 150mbps with your own local media.

And any streaming services will use way less - Netflix and Hulu recommend a mere 16Mbps at 4k for example.

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Apple TV can double as Home Hub device in which it records/routes to/ cloud from your cameras. Combined with high-res content, e.g. when streaming games, it can saturate the 1GbE.

Also, just learned it's still 4k 60Hz. So forget 120Hz gaming. Game streaming is likely to become a default in near future at the hardware proces we see, so limiting to 60Hz is really cheap of them at this point.

I’m not a gamer so I had to look this up. The Google AI answer for cloud gaming stated a stable 15-20Mbps connection as a requirement. Obviously latency matters in many scenarios but raw bandwidth might be overstated?

Geforce Now requires up to 1gbit for the 5k 120Hz. Geforce Now is not yet available on Apple TV, but it's probably a matter of time and/or other similar services will also impose requirements like this sooner or later.

Even still, this AppleTV only does up to 4k 60 fps. While getting long in the tooth (1000Base-T is 25+ years old! wow...) it's still enough for anything it is expected to do.

Yeah, the point is 4k 60Hz is another odd limitation. It should be 120Hz and 2.5GbE.

As in, it's a $300 device that still uses old hardware and standards.

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